[kj] [OT] little earthquakes

[Karen Weil]

Glad you're OK, folk devil (this was my first ground tremor!)

Keep the faith,

k.w.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TB" <partyslammer at socal.rr.com>
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] little earthquakes



> "folk devil" wrote:

>

>>  Well, LA just had a 5.8.

>

> I was in Newport Beach, right across the street in one of the top floors 

> of one of the high-rise medical buildings across the street from Fashion 

> Island in the dentists' chair.  She was just finishing up a routine teeth 

> cleaning on me and everything started shaking and we could hear some women 

> in one of the adjacent offices screaming about "an earthquake." 

> Naturally, the dentist ran out in the waiting room leaving me sitting n' 

> drooling in the fuckin' chair with a tray of tools on my chest while the 

> shaking continued. I've been a Southern CA native my entire life (almost 

> 50 years) so I've ridden through some decent quakes in my time and this 

> one honestly didn't feel that significant or last that long. I never would 

> have thought it was a 5.8.  Most of the people evacuated the building and 

> as I was pretty much done, I simply left.  Interestingly, there was no 

> cell phone service for almost an hour afterwards.

>

> Unfortunately, when I got home about 20 minutes North in Huntington Beach, 

> I discovered that along with several built and painted Japanese resin 

> garage kits had tumbled to the floor off the glass display stand and 

> suffered some damage.

>

> T.B.

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